The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-21
HOW 1T is DONE.

On his disrobing l found his expanding
chest and contracting waist and stalwart
bearing was achieved by the use of a com
bination brace, belt and chest protector
The chest protector, held in its place between
the shoulders by the brace, keeping him
erect like guarlsman, was also connected
below with a wide belt of several thick
nesses of flannel, which wrapped several
times around the body and confined by
strings did not show in the contour while
contracting his waist, which, measured with
his chest, gave him the proportions of a
gladiator. The high instep of which he was
so proud was produced by several thick
nesses OF the leather i'll that part of the
close fitting, pen-like patent feathers, which
were also provided with false soles and not
the slippers they appeared to be. These
revelations considerably surprised me, but
still greater surprise was in store in the
morning, when noticed that the rosy tints
of health disappeared from his cheek mo-
mentarily as he performed his additions;
for it Immediately reappeared on the appli-
cation of rouge puff, which he took from
toilet box / supposed contained tooth pow
der. was pleased to find that his teeth were
not false; also that he did not wear a wig
Inquiring how he managed to keep his hair
always the Identical length SO that there was
never any indication that he ever went to
the BARRIERS for cutting, he explained that
every day when he was shaved the barber
always clipped the growing hairs here and
there as they appeared. He found two lit
tie hairs over his ear that had been neglect
ed or overlooked by his barber that morn
ing, and the discovery perceptibly worried
him. He kept his clothes from creasing by
carefully folding them on disrobing, ex-
planning that the creases came in garments
that way, and not When distended on the
body, excepting the blistering of the
trousers at the knee. | don't believe there
ever was a man, excepting possibly some
old hayseed farmer, country editor or par
son or granger politician, who has not open
ly and inwardly cussed at the tendency of
his trousers to blister or bag at the knees,
and this part of the mysteries to be eluci-
dated by my discovery interested me more
than all the rest | had intended to ask my
friend how it was he always contrived that
his trousers retained the crease down the cen
tire of newness, and was about coniecturing
he sent them over night to a tailor to be re-
pressed or used himself one of those patent
appliances He solved the problem agitat-
ing my mind by his actions. noticed that
before retiring he carefully folded his
trousers tailor fashion in a way to produce
the crease, and then carefully placed them
between the mattresses of his bed. | sup
posed at the time he was doing this to stow
away safely his money and Jewels, but in
the morning found that the precaution
had been taken in order to press his trousers
and restore the crease down the leg that al
ways threw the appearance of newness. He
achieved the smooth, perfect fit of his i'm
itihculate shirt front by turning under an
inch or so of the lower part of the bosom
His tall, dude collar was SO stiff with thick
ness of the material and starch that it was
a ''choker' almost III reality, and must have
held his slender neck az in a wise. This
rigio collar could never have been adjusted
10 the ordinary button, and a patent one,
opening and shutting, as it were, had to be
used. His tie, which was an achievement
of art and not dexterous manipulation, was
held in its place by little patent clasps or
clamps. He told me that he subjected his
finger nails to manicure once week, and
sometimes oftener, for shining. Laced and
bound ND this fellow could undergo any
amount of unrefreshing fatigue, dancing
and attudinizing in a badly ventilated and
overcowded parlor.